Principal Engineer / Technical Director (AI Powered Creative Automation), Bucharest

Hogarth is the Global Content Experience Company. Part of WPP, Hogarth partners with one in every two of the world's top 100 brands including Coca-Cola, Ford, Rolex, Nestlé, Mondelez and Dyson. With a breadth of experience across an extensive range of sectors, Hogarth offers the unrivaled ability to deliver relevant, engaging, and measurable content across all channels and media - both established and emerging.

The number of channels at our fingertips; the need for speed; and the drive for mass personalisation, all mean that brands need different solutions.

Our global team of over 6,000 craft and technology experts brings together creative, production and innovation to help clients navigate this exciting and ever-changing world of today's content experience.

The Role:

We are seeking a highly motivated Principal Engineer to join our AI powered Creative Automation product team. Our exciting product implements the latest AI technology, such as Computer Vision, Predictive Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing to inform how advertising content is performing across channel, market and format. It then uses this data with Generative AI models to create highly performing digital advertising at scale.

The ideal candidate will have previous experience leading the development of highly technical cloud product builds within a serverless AWS architecture. You will take ownership of engineering decisions and lead the product engineering team through technical scoping and solutions. You will define innovative and modern technical solutions to feature requirements, and lead the engineering team during implementation. You'll be working with the Product Manager and Engineering Manager as the technical counterpart on the leadership team, but can also happily contribute code for prototypes or to production when required.
Responsibilities:

• Overall leadership and ownership of product architecture, engineering decisions and best practice
• Working alongside the Engineering Manager to deliver features to the highest specification
• Mentor and upskill the existing engineering team in cloud operations, release management, and testing processes
• Review the existing deployment process and provide recommendations on process and tooling improvements

Requirements:

• Software engineering background with a strong knowledge building within a serverless AWS environment
• Previous experience in a management or leadership role, with a passion for building and managing effective engineering teams
• Familiarity with DynamoDB, MongoDB, Step Functions, Lambda, Cognito, API Gateway
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with globally distributed cross-functional teams
• Proven experience with a company working in a global environment.

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Diversity & Inclusion

Hogarth is an equal-opportunity employer. That means we believe in creating a truly inclusive culture that values diversity, equity and inclusion for everyone through our ideas, our people, how we behave and how we conduct ourselves. We strive to recruit people from diverse backgrounds and support them to achieve long-term success. This not only makes Hogarth a better company and place to work, but an environment where everyone can give their point of view, experience connection, enjoy opportunity and feel a sense of belonging.

We welcome applications from everyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion or belief, gender, gender identity, age, national origin, marital status, military veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, or physical or mental disability. As part of our commitment to making our hiring processes as equitable as possible, we are currently rolling out a policy which ensures that hiring managers review CVs only after they have been processed through an automated anonymisation system. This aims to ensure that all candidates are considered for interview based solely on their experience and what they can bring to the role. The solution, provided by MeVitae, scans and redacts CVs to reduce potential reviewer bias.

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